This chapter develops a carefully reasoned analysis of Spanish resources enacting the negotiability of propositions and proposals. Following a review of the ways in which English and French structure the negotiability of ...

This paper proposes a text-based systemic-functional account of the Spanish nominal group. Firstly, approaching the Spanish nominal group 'from above' (i.e. taking the contextual variables of field and mode as a starting ...

This paper proposes a text-based systemic-functional account of the Spanish nominal group. Firstly, approaching the Spanish nominal group 'from above' (i.e. taking the contextual variables of field and mode as a starting ...

The aim of this paper is to illustrate the possibility of interaction between Functional Discourse Grammar and typological studies by examining the relationship between evidentiality and tense in a sample of native languages ...

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a usage-based theory of language, founded on the assumption that language is shaped entirely by its various functions in the contexts in which it used. The first of its kind, this ...